A collection of text graphics and related works, stretching back thousands of years. Textiles, BBS-graphics, poetry, mosaic, typography, and much more. Collected by Raquel Meyers and Goto80.

Includes formats such as shift-JIS, PETSCII, ASCII, ANSI, RTTY, ATASCII, unicode, braille, xbin ...

Made for media like videotex, teletext, BBS, buildings, typewriters, clothes, textile, letterpress, toys, telidon, antiope, print, minitel

With styles such as animation, typography, mosaic, poetry, text art, χχχ, text mode, advertising, elite, kufic, sloyd

Putting the emphasis on grids, patterns, emoticons, tiles, tessellations

From ancient times and the 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s , 2000s, 2010s
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Motifs for Children nº 197, published by Patons (UK), via.

#70s      #pattern      #textile      #clothes      #Knitting     

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Brix Blox by Sears Little Learners, construction kit (1970s).

#Brix Blox      #toy      #1970s      #70s      #blocks     

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Tente (1972-1993) was a line of construction toys created by EXIN-LINES BROS S.A., a plastics and toy company based in Barcelona, Spain. Pictures by RMJ68.

#tente      #toy      #1970s      #70s      #blocks     

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Carl Andre, then I pulled his gun and I, 1975. Via.

Carl Andre, then I pulled his gun and I, 1975. Via.

#typewriter      #poetry      #70s     

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 Three kinds of lines and all their combinations  by Sol LeWitt (1973).

 Three kinds of lines and all their combinations  by Sol LeWitt (1973).

#drawing      #70s     

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Madonna and Child ASCII Art, Creative Computing Compendium (Standards for writing graphical programs in BASIC), from the magazine “The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1” (1976), via.

Madonna and Child ASCII Art, Creative Computing Compendium (Standards for writing graphical programs in BASIC), from the magazine “The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1” (1976), via.

#ascii      #magazine      #1970s      #70s      #basic     

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A DDR game called “Kubus VEB Plastspielwaren Waltershausen” from the company Plaspi, ca. 1970’s. A block/cube set to plug-and-match to create patterns and mosaics.

A DDR game called “Kubus VEB Plastspielwaren Waltershausen” from the company Plaspi, ca. 1970’s. A block/cube set to plug-and-match to create patterns and mosaics.

#70s      #1970s      #plaspi      #blocks      #DDR      #cube      #mosaic      #toy     

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From the magazine “The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1” (1976)

From the magazine “The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1” (1976)

#ascii      #1970s      #70s      #magazine     

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“Uitzendkrachten hebben rechten”  poster by Paul Schouten (1977), via

“Uitzendkrachten hebben rechten”  poster by Paul Schouten (1977), via

#70s      #1970s      #design     

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Paul Smith, the Typewriter artist. Originally aired March-April of 1976 on KOIN-TV in Portland Oregon.

#typewriter      #70s     

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Emoticons/emojis created by overlyaing several text characters on top of eachother. These instructions are from 1976, and might have been around as early as 1972.

This technique was possible on the amazing 1970s PLATO computer, and probably never again after that? You could also move the text-chars around on a pixel level. Pictures/info from platopeople.com.

How were these things done? Well, on PLATO, you could press SHIFT-space to move your cursor back one space — and then if you typed another character, it would appear on top of the existing character. And if you wanted to get real fancy, you could use the MICRO and SUB and SUPER keys on a PLATO keyboard to move up and down one pixel or more — in effect providing a HUGE array of possible emoticon characters.

#1970s      #emoticons      #emoji      #tool      #70s      #PLATO     

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Thomas Bayrle’s Pictogram-like cells aka ‘super-forms’
All-in-One, exhibition at WIELS (Brussels) / 09.02 – 12.05.2013.

#60s      #70s      #art      #grid      #pictogram      #χχχ     
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Alf Munthe & Greta Gahn, 1951-1971 period.
from the exhibition at Leksands Kulturhus.

#textile      #50s      #60s      #70s     

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dom sylvester houédard, ceolfrith No.15, 1972.

dom sylvester houédard, ceolfrith No.15, 1972.

#70s      #typewriter      #poetry     

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dom sylvester houédard, like contemplation, 1972.

dom sylvester houédard, like contemplation, 1972.

#poetry      #typewriter      #70s